Ethereum Watch

Cardano is all about research, review, and readiness for the future. If you haven’t read the series intro, head there to find out about the technical challenges facing Ethereum, plus an overview of smart contracts, Turing completeness, sidechains, and RSK. Advertisements Last week, we considered EOS as a challenger. This week, the smart contract and decentralized […]

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said yesterday that ethereum’s in-house scaling solution, sharding, is moving closer to completion. Advertisements Tweeting that “sharding is coming,” Buterin shared a new code repository that documents a partial proof-of-concept for what is called the “fork choice rule,” the code for how ethereum shards interact with the main blockchain. As detailed by […]

In a letter to investors, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that demand for the powerful computers used to mine ether and other cryptocurrencies has contributed to a “boom of computing.” Advertisements Brin wrote Saturday that several factors have led to a surge in computing power that has seen search giant Google’s own processors speed up […]

As ethereum, now the world’s second most valuable blockchain, grows larger and more diverse, it’s becoming clear its mechanisms for getting input from its constituency are proving problematic. Advertisements Indeed, a series of proposals targeted at controversial topics – lost fund recovery, the ether supply rate and the emergence of new mining hardware – have […]

Spanish banking giant BBVA has completed a pilot that issued a €75 million ($91 million) corporate loan using two different blockchain technologies. Advertisements According to a report from the Financial Times on Thursday, the bank’s latest exploration of the technology focuses on the entire issuance process, including negotiation of terms and signing the corporate loan. […]

Parity Technologies issued a statement Thursday stating it has no plans to move forward with a code change that would result in an ethereum blockchain split. Advertisements Named EIP-999, the contentious code change would recover the $264 million lost due to a code fault in Parity wallets in November 2017. Signed by co-founder of the […]

Ethereum may be on the brink of a blockchain split. Advertisements At least, that was the mood at a meeting of top ethereum developers late last week where a discussion around a code proposal called EIP-999 led some to speculate that the creation of two competing blockchains is now a possibility. Indeed, it’s now believed the […]

Users of MyEtherWallet, a web app for storing and sending ether and ethereum-based tokens, experienced an attack Tuesday that saw users of the service lose around $152,000 worth of ether. Advertisements The company was quick to alert users to the danger, tweeting a warning at 7:29 a.m. EDT, within 15 minutes of when the hack […]

This series was titled “Ethereum Competitors,” but that was probably overzealous. Advertisements These protocols — EOS, NEO, Cardano, etc. — are often described as “Ethereum Killers,” but numerous platforms can co-exist, as Windows, macOS, and Linux do today. Perhaps the future will see many of these cryptocurrency challengers coexisting as alternatives or as platforms with different strengths and specialties. […]

New code written to change the way the ethereum network reaches consensus is now ready for review, developers said Friday. Advertisements Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) 1011, known as Hybrid Casper FFG (short for “Friendly Finality Gadget”), would implement the first step in a long-planned shift away from the energy-intensive mining process and toward towards a […]